Meet Our New Quilting Kitty

Published: Thu, 04/20/17

Hi ,

Yes, I have a new quilting friend that's a bit on the furry side!

This is Pickles, our super sweet new kitty. We rescued her a few weeks ago and now she's starting to settle in and her personality is coming out strong.
She's a bit of a whiner. Or I should say yowler. When she's not happy (which is anytime she's not being attentively petted or brushed), she meows with ever increasing volume until you just give in and give her what she wants.

What does she want lately? To hang out in the Crafty Cottage with me as I quilt!

The good news is once she thoroughly sniffed both above and below my desk, she found herself a spot under my chair and curled up to take a long nap.

I've never let a cat into the Crafty Cottage before and I hope it works out and she can start quilting with me every day. It's fun to have a companion and I'd rather share the space with her than listen to her meow right outside my door.

Speaking of quilting, I'm super happy to be back to making videos after nearly three weeks of remodeling and cleaning the house! I have a really fun quilt planned using the beautiful fabrics in this month's Quilty Box.

Be looking for the video coming out Monday.
Quilting Superwoman Jackie Kunkel
This week I'm getting to know Jackie Kunkel, an amazing quilter who runs an online business at Canton Village Quilt Works

Jackie also writes books and patterns, teaches online classes, and is a certified Judy Neimeyer teacher. She is truly a quilting Superwoman and I hope you enjoy learning more about Jackie.


Jackie began longarm quilting in 2000 because it allowed her to work from home and fit her hours around her kid's schedule.

She has changed her business over the years - creating a website, selling products online, and writing magazine articles. Jackie believes in remaining flexible so her business can grow and change as the quilting industry changes.

Jackie is also discussed how she became a certified Judy Neimeyer teacher. She was a huge fan of Judy's quilts and found being certified to be helpful in teaching classes.

Jackie is also a big fan of batik fabrics and has a signature collection with Kathy Engel for Island Batik fabrics. She is working on a designer collection for Fall 2018.

So that's it for this week! Remember, all this month the Dresden Plate Template set is on sale. This is a versatile set of ten templates that can be mixed and matched to create dozens of Dresden Plate quilt blocks, cut tumbler and circle shapes, and for ruler work machine quilting.

And stay tuned for this month's Quilty Box project, which will be out this coming Monday.

Until next week, let's go quilt.

Leah Day